Louis L. Jaffe, 90, Noted Legal Scholar
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Louis L. Jaffe, a former professor of administrative law at Harvard Law School, died on Wednesday at Charwell House, a nursing home in Norwood, Mass. He was 90 and had lived in Cambridge. Mr. Jaffe joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1950 and became one of the school’s most widely known analysts and writers in tort law and administrative law, particularly on the role of courts in reviewing administrative agencies like the Federal Communication Commission. He wrote ”Judicial Control” (Little Brown, 1965) and was the co-author of ”Administrative Law: Cases and Materials” with Nathaniel L. Nathanson (Little Brown, 1976). The texts were widely adopted by law schools. A native of Seattle, he earned an undergraduate degree in economics at Johns Hopkins University in 1925 and a law degree at Harvard in 1928. He was a clerk to Justice Louis D. Brandeis and then returned to Harvard for an S.J.D. degree, which he received in 1932. After working for several Federal agencies, he became a professor of law the University of Buffalo and in 1948 became dean of the law school. He is survived by a daughter, Deborah Yeomans of Dedham, Mass.; a son, Miles, of Cambridge; two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. His wife, Mildred Dunbar Miles, died in 1980. Source : query.nytimes.com |